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Author:

Thompson, Linda, 1941-

Title:

Building an empire : the Louisiana Purchase / written by Linda Thompson.

Publisher:

Rourke Educational Media,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Louisiana Purchase--Juvenile literature.
United States--Territorial expansion--Juvenile literature.
Louisiana Purchase.
Territorial expansion.
United States.
Juvenile works.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Louisiana : the new territory -- Napoleon's secret treaty with Spain -- Thomas Jefferson's dream -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Summary:

Learn about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, when the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.

Series:

History of America

ISBN:

1621698424
9781621698425

OCLC:

(OCoLC)867654590

LCCN:

2013936393

Locations:

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)